It wasn’t exactly the debut on Valleywag I was looking for but I’m on a roster of folks scheduled to be booted from Yahoo next week:
Senior Product Manager in Corporate Development Ian Kennedy [here for another ride (maybe the tilt-a-whirl)]
Heh. They’ve got me in the wrong group, I’m a Product Manager of publisher.yahoo.com putting some [...]
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Success on the internet is not a zero sum game. New activity can come from any corner and audience and attention often expands to meet this demand. Much has to do with the spirit of “giving back” which is one of the principles upon which the internet is [...]
As a blogger and old school web publisher (Tokyo Q, one of my first efforts, is now enjoying its 10th year of service), I love to talk about tools that help publishers take advantage of the internet as a delivery channel. Coming up on my first anniversary at the big Y, I am now putting [...]
Technorati has been keeping track of the increasing number of blogs in languages other than English reporting at their last State of the Blogosphere that English is no longer the dominate language of blogs; the majority of blog posts are now in Japanese.
The number one blog on the Technorati 100 is now, 老徐 徐静蕾 新浪BLOG [...]
Rocketboom, the daily video newscast is now available for download to your broadband connected Tivo.
We differ from a regular TV program in many important ways.
Instead of costing millions of dollars to produce, Rocketboom is
created with a consumer-level video camera, a laptop, two lights and a
map with no additional overhead or costs.
It’s going to be another busy week – BusinessWeek has a lengthy cover story on why companies need to pay attention to blogs.
Go ahead and
bellyache about blogs. But you cannot afford to close your eyes to
them, because they’re simply the most explosive outbreak in the
information world since the Internet itself. And they’re going to shake
up [...]
Joshua Schachter, the creator of the social tagging system that has taken the blogging community by storm and is often pointed to as a prime example of "folksonomy" in action, announced that he’s quitting his job, taking on investment, and devoting himself full time to del.icio.us.
Hooray, another one leaves the nest to pursue his dream!
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A sign of the times perhaps. Nando Times, one of the first online media organizations is being re-branded by it’s parent as McClatchy interactive. Nando, launched in 1994, was shorthand for The News & Observer and was, in the early days, the first place to go for quality news online.
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We’ve seen it played out over and over again. The internet has enabled consumers to go directly to the production plant for disintermediated product. Covered in detail in Michael Lewis’ book, Next, the internet has upset age old business models, putting raw materials within reach of the everyman and providing a platform for a thousand [...]
The internet has been on fire the past few days here at Six Apart sales with the announcement that we are acquiring Live Journal. I’ll be the lazy meta man and link to our very own Jay Allen who’s done a great job of pulling together the “must reads” on the topic.
I will continue to [...]
